June 2011

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/25848389[/vimeo] If you were down there today, I hope you are recovering from the intense winds that showed up. As the saying goes – when life gives you lemons just don’t squirt it in your eyes – or something like that, I’m still a little loopy from the wind myself. The chop on the water does allow you to throw…

There are simply so many great places to explore and fish within day-trip range of Sun Valley. Yesterday on my weekly commute from Boise to Ketchum, I dropped down into the basalt canyons of the Boise River System to poke around a bit and see what the trout were up to. Normal summer temperatures and conditions are finally upon us…

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/25696839[/vimeo] No web-cams, limited cell service, and my favorite place to scout out. Dirt roads, 70’s country gold for the tunes, one or two cold beers and you know what I’m talking about. If you like to cross and work the river all day, probably not the place to go right now. If you stay in the upper reaches of…

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Meander through downtown and enjoy fantastic art! The Gallery Walk is from 5pm – 8pm at select galleries throughout Ketchum, Idaho and will be open for visitors. Start at the Sun Valley Center For Arts for hors d’oeuvres and wine.

Stop by Silver Creek on June 30th to have your copy of Cache signed by author Spencer Beebe. Cache, Creating Natural Economies, by Spencer Beebe is a forty-year adventure inventing new ways of both conserving the environment and creating new businesses, working with remarkable people, and ultimately finding a new model of development to address the social, economic, and ecological issues of our day….

It’s the sounds of summer. Pivot line sprinklers creating rhythm as crowds of buddies pop cold ones and BS along the banks of various Central Idaho fisheries. Flow charts begin to show signs of peaking and head toward fishable levels. Prolific hatches finally begin making their anticipated arrivals and things around here are finally starting to feel like summer is…

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25425253[/vimeo]The Brown Drake hatch has started. It has been coming off at all times of the day. The spinner fall usually happens in the evenings but came off at 9:00 am on Tuesday and lasted for 2 hours. It pays off to check the lower creek often and we should see the hatch for the next couple of days. I…

Hey Brown Drakes… “If you can’t get here on time, just get here when you can ok?” Well our buddies have finally shown up in healthy numbers over the last several days, including a few rare day time emergences. With warm summer weather in the forecast we can expect the hatch to move fairly quickly so get your hall pass…